Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-19
miscellaneous
MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL.

Six English managers are after 1.-THE Still
Alarm"
D'Oyly Carte's continental opera troupe ex-
poets to sing 1.-The Mikado' in Russia this
winter.
Dion Boucicault viii shortly go to Boston
to produce in the Hollis Street theatre his
'Phryre."
Mr. Mckee Rankin has decided to postpone
his spectacular and musical production of
Macbeth until the spring.
An actress who came to this country with
an English star ten years ago and played
leading parts for him is billed as promising
little lady Of H.
Nine Janauschek, who has not sufficiently
recovered from her injuries to resume act
ing, is to give dramatic readings in New
York this winter
Kate Claxton is to change her bill at last.
She will revive Tom Taylor's Mary Warner"
and will produce The World Against Her."
by Frank Harvey.
Col Jack Haverly has formulated plans
for new theatre at st. Paul which is to cost
from $4,000 to 10000, and Millionaire
Ryan viii put up the money.
In the ten Philharmonic concerts to be
given in Berlin, under Hans Won Bulow's
dictatorship, Sgambati, Gernsheim, Strauss
and D'Albert are to conduct the performances
Of their own works.
The death is rumored in Portland, Me-, of
"Billy" Morris, one of the best known of
minstrels twenty years ago, and possessor of
the biggest mustache in the country. He was
associated with the company of Morris
Brothers, Pell and Trowbridge, in Boston.
Odessa has a new theatre, which is to be
opened in October. 1t is said to have cost
500, 600, including its rich sculptural decora-
tions, and it is figured that it will cost about
100000 year more to run it than it can
possibly take in.
Levy, the cornet player, has organized a
company and will give concerts this season
under management of Maze Edwards. The
company includes Levy, cornetist; Mrs.
Levy, soprano; Lulu Klein, contralto; En-
rico Bottestini, tenor; Lithgow James, bari
tone, and Max Hirschfeld, pianist.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, having re-
turned from Carlsbad, has departed on her
annual tour. She gives operatic concerts
through the country, with the assistance of
Signor Spigaroh, tenor; Mr.. w. II. Lee,
baritone; Miss Carrie Morse, contralto, and
Mr.. Charles L. Pratt, accompanist.
e. II. Sothern's travelling tour begins on
Oct 81 with the "Highest Bidder The
company embraces f. II. Sothern, Charles
f. Bishop, Herbert Archer, Roland Buck
stone y. w. Gregory, William Davenport,
Alfred Gehlinger, Robert Grant, Belle
Archer, Maud Maubray and Ethelin Friend.
a sextet of banjo players, entitled the
Tilley Troubadours, have been added to the
promenade concerts at Her Majestys theatre,
London Their work is pronounced meri-
torious i'll the main. But there is sarcasm
in the fact that the concerts are the redoubt-
able Col Mapleson's, and Signor Arditi is
their conductor.
The bitterest war that has ever been waged
against theatrical ticket Spectators is carried
on by the management of the Chicago Opera
house, in Chicago, where the Edwin Booth
Lawrence Barrett company are playing.
Only four seats are sold to any one person,
and at that the advance sale before the first
performance reached $4,000.